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Bruce Smith (born 1946) is an American poet.

Life

Smith was born and raised in Philadelphia. He taught at the University of Alabama, Phillips Academy, Andover[1] and now teaches at Syracuse University.[2][3] He has been a co-editor of the Graham House Review and a contributing editor of Born Magazine.[4]

Awards

• “Discovery”/The Nation Award winner
• 2000 Guggenheim Fellowship
• National Endowment for the Arts grant
• Massachusetts Foundation for the Arts grant
• 1984 National Poetry Series Selection, for Silver and Information
• National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Other Lover
• National Book Award finalist for Devotions
• 2012 William Carlos Williams Award presented by the Poetry Society of America
• Finalist, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize[5]

Collections

• The Common Wages. Sheep Meadow Press. 1983. ISBN 978-0-935296-42-6.
• Silver and Information. University of Georgia Press. December 1985. ISBN 978-0-8203-0762-6.
• Mercy Seat. University of Chicago Press. 1994. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-226-76405-4. Bruce Smith (poet).
• The Other Lover. University of Chicago Press. 2000. ISBN 978-0-226-76408-5.
• Songs for Two Voices. University of Chicago Press. April 2005. ISBN 978-0-226-76455-9.
• Devotions. University of Chicago Press. April 15, 2011. ISBN 978-0226764351.
• Spill. University of Chicago Press. 2018. ISBN 978-0-226-57041-9.

Anthologies

• Yusef Komunyakaa; David Lehman, eds. (2003). The Best American Poetry 2003. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-0388-3.
• Lyn Hejinian; David Lehman, eds. (2004). "Song of the Ransom of the Dark". The best American poetry, 2004. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-5757-2.
• 2009 Pushcart Prize anthology

References

Further reading

• Burt, Stephen (August 4, 2011). "Poetry for Tough Guys". The New York Times. Review of Devotions (2011).

External links

• "Devotion: The Burnt-Over District", Poetry (January 2008)
• "Devotion: The Garment District", Poetry (January 2008)
• "Obbligato", Poetry (April 2004)
• "The Game", The New Yorker, September 7, 2009
• "Something of Consolation", AGNI 56, 2002
• "Still", Greensboro Review, 2007
• "Silver and Information", Poetry Foundation
• "Letter to T.", Ploughshares, Winter 1998-99
• "Jelly 292 ", Ploughshares, Winter 1998-99
• "Airless ", Ploughshares, Fall 2001

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